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E. WENIGMANN.

RAILWAY GAR.

No. 401,525. Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

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ERNEST \VENIGMANN, OF NEVV YORK, N. Y.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,525, dated April 16, 1889.

Application filed February 5, 1889. Serial No. 293,718. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST WENIGMANN, of New York city, New York, have invented an Improved Railway-Oar, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a railway-car so constructed that passengers may enter it from the roof instead of from the floor, as heretofore. Thus access to the cars on the central tracks of a four-track road may be had from a bridge spanning the tracks, and in this way the loading and unloading of the cars can be readily accomplished without any one track interfering with the other tracks.

The improvement is particularly applicable to roads that run express trains on central tracks and way trains on the side tracks; but it can also be applied to cars running through tunnels and to railway-cars in general.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical central section of a car provided with myimprovement on line x to, Fig. 4. Fig. 2 is a sectional end View of a depot, bridge, or platform spanning four tracks carrying cars constructed according to my invention. Fig. 3 is a top view of the car, and Fig. 4 a top View of the car with the roof removed.

The letter A represents a railway-car of suitable construction, and having the usual central aisle, a, between rows of seats 19. The roof 0 of the car has the raised ventilatingdome cl. Preferably at each side of this dome there is an opening, c, closed by a sliding or folding door, f. From the openings 6 staircases 9 lead down Within the interior of the car to the car-floor. I prefer to place the two staircases on opposite sides of the aisle a and to face in opposite directions. One of the stairs serves for the ascent and the other for the descent of the passengers. To accommodate the lower sections of the stairs, a few of the seats 5 are omitted. Each staircase is supported by the car-floor and faces toward either the front or rear end of the car.

In Fig. 2 l have shown a platform adapted for the loading and unloading of my improved cars. Here the platform B spans four tracks. Stairs 7?. lead from the platform down to the car-roof 0. Passengers will thus be able to readily descend from platform B to car-roof and thence to the car-floor, and will as readily be able to ascend from the car-floor to the roof and thence to the platform.

By causing the staircases g to face in opposite directions and by placing the openings 6 on opposite sides of the dome d the two streams of passengers will always be completely separated. This is the preferred way of constructing my improved car; but of course the car-roof may be made without the dom e, and the stairs maybe differently located within the interior of the car.

\Vhat I claim isl. The combination of a railway-car having an opening in the roof with a door for closing said opening, and with a staircase leading from the roof to the interior of the car, the staircase being supported upon the carfloor and facing toward one of the ends of the car, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a railway-car having a pair of openings in its roof with two pairs of staircases leading from said openings 'to the interior of the car, the staircases facing in opposite directions and being located at opposite sides of the aisle, substantially as specified.

ERNEST WENIGHANN.

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